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Dai 06-05-2011 19:52

£15 computer !!
 
David Braben is a very well-known game developer who runs the UK development studio Frontier Developments, but is just as well known for being the co-developer of Elite.

Over his career his studio has brought us the Rollercoaster Tycoon series, Thrillville, Lost Winds, and most recently Kinectimals. In the background, however, Braben has been trying to tackle another problem: getting programming and general learning of how computers work back into schools.


http://www.geek.com/articles/games/g...or-25-2011055/

Ramrod 06-05-2011 20:28

Re: £15 computer !!
 
That is impressive.
However my son learnt about PC components at school last year (year 5- 11yo)......are they not teaching this in other schools?:confused:

Halcyon 06-05-2011 21:04

Re: £15 computer !!
 
I think he is quite right. I've seen that in schools they teach many things such as creating a website, making an access database, using graphs in excel, etc but nothing such as basic programming.

I remember when I was at school we started with programming a turtle to draw patterns and looked at simple code building.

This pocket sized PC is a great way of getting kids involved in how computers operate.

ZrByte 06-05-2011 21:51

Re: £15 computer !!
 
I wouldnt mind one of those myself. I could think of loads of uses for them.

Osem 23-12-2011 15:34

Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 
The teaching of IT in our schools has recently been heavily criticised:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-16157519

Will this make a difference, both inside and outside of the education sector?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16316439


Quote:

The eagerly anticipated Raspberry Pi home computer is about to go into production.

The $25 (£16) machine is being created in the hope that it will inspire a new generation of technology whizz kids.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/

The start of a revolution even?

Kymmy 23-12-2011 15:42

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 
I was looking at it this morning.. Put one on a USB caddy and you have an ultra cheap NAS or with Servio running a cheap DLNA server.

Uncle Peter 23-12-2011 17:14

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 
Brilliant idea. The possibilities are endless.

Osem 23-12-2011 18:35

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 
Yes, and it's nice that a UK based organisation is behind this. Wouldn't it be great if this is the start of something huge!

Ravenheart 23-12-2011 18:42

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 
It looks quite impressive, and as Osem says it's great to see a UK firm behind it. Will keep an eye on it thanks for the heads up :)

Osem 23-12-2011 19:33

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 
Good for another UK firm too it seems as ARM makes the chips.

Sirius 23-12-2011 20:12

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 
It would be excellent if it had 2 ethernet ports, Think of the linux based router you could build with that :)

Kymmy 23-12-2011 21:03

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 
It's got a USB 2 port so easy enough to add another NIC/WNIC for router usage

LSainsbury 23-12-2011 22:14

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 
Haven't we discused this device in another thread? I recall a discussion about it a few weeks back...

Kymmy 23-12-2011 22:21

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 
A search for Raspberry doesn't bring anything up

Mr_love_monkey 24-12-2011 00:08

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/19...-computer.html

I think...


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